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London, 16 December 2014 – The UK’s fastest growing technology firm, LMAX Exchange, today announced the launch of a matching engine in the Equinix IBX Data Centre in Tokyo (TY3). This will give brokers, asset managers and funds in Asia Pacific access to LMAX Exchange at execution speed of less than 4ms.

Adding a matching engine in Japan, the market accounting for over 40% of the global retail FX volumes, is a major milestone in global expansion for the London-based LMAX Exchange. The leading FCA regulated MTF for FX trading, LMAX Exchange operates its original matching engine from Equinix London data centre (LD4/5), delivering exchange style, non ’last look’, low latency execution.

LMAX Exchange CEO, David Mercer, commented: “Over the past couple of years, we have witnessed a real shift in FX trading towards transparent price discovery and a level playing field. LMAX Exchange is leading this industry change towards transparency and with clients in over 80 countries, our main objective is to deliver consistently low latency and exchange quality execution around the globe. With the launch of the Tokyo matching engine, we can now offer the same low latency execution in under 4ms, that all our clients enjoy in LD4, to our clients in Asia-Pacific.”

Andrew Phillips, Director of Technical Operations at LMAX Exchange, added “Through TY3 we gain close proximity to major financial institutions in Japan; this combined with access to the broadest choice of networks, means our Tokyo matching engine can deliver sustained processing capacity of 40,000 orders per second, giving us a significant competitive advantage in the region.”

Liquidity providers and major regional brokers have welcomed the announcement. Alex Gerko, Head of Trading at GSA Capital, commented: “LMAX Exchange has a truly unique business model, enabling complete transparency and level playing field to both the buy and sell-side. We are excited to continue working with LMAX Exchange and pricing into the new Tokyo venue, bringing the benefits of limit order-based, low latency execution to clients in Asia-Pacific.”

David Wilkinson, Senior Director, Financial Services and Enterprises, Equinix Asia Pacific, commented: “The deployment of LMAX Exchange in Japan signifies the exuberant growth in the region, as more and more financial services providers and FX trading platforms are expanding into Tokyo. It also further strengthens TY3 as our FX hub in the region, demonstrating our global financial ecosystem inside Equinix.”

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About LMAX Exchange

LMAX Exchange Group is a dynamic, visionary and award-winning financial technology company. Recognised as one of the UK’s fastest growing technology firms, LMAX Exchange is leading the transformation of the global FX industry to transparent, fair, precise and consistent execution. Operating one global marketplace for trading FX, metals, indices and commodities, LMAX Exchange delivers open access, transparency and a level playing field to all market participants.

LMAX Exchange has been awarded The Profit & Loss Readers’ Choice Awards “Best Margin Sector Platform” for five consecutive years. These awards are voted on by the readers and recognise excellence within the foreign exchange industry throughout the previous year. close

The Deloitte EMEA Technology Fast 500 pre-eminent technology awards program is a ranking of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa's fastest-growing technology companies based on percentage revenue growth over three years. close

2015, 2014, 2013 Fastest Growing Tech Company in the UK – The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 more

LMAX Exchange has been recognised amongst the UK’s fastest growing technology firms for three consecutive years. Tech Track 100, compiled by Fast Track annually and published by the Sunday Times each September, lists Britain’s 100 fastest-growing private tech companies based on sales growth over the last three years. close

2015 Recognised as a Tech City Future Fifty company – Tech City UK Future Fiftymore

LMAX Exchange is part of the Future Fifty programme, focused on accelerating the success of high-growth tech businesses. close

LMAX Exchange Group is the holding company of LMAX Limited and LMAX Broker Limited.

LMAX Exchange is a trading name of LMAX Limited, which operates a multilateral trading facility, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (firm reference number 509778) and is a company registered in England and Wales (number 6505809).

LMAX Global is a trading name of LMAX Broker Limited which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (firm reference number 783200) and is a company registered in England and Wales (number 10819525).

LMAX Exchange Group is the holding company of LMAX Limited and LMAX Broker Limited | LMAX Exchange is a trading name of LMAX Limited, which operates a multilateral trading facility, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (firm reference number 509778) and is a company registered in England and Wales (number 6505809) | LMAX Global is a trading name of LMAX Broker Limited which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (firm reference number 783200) and is a company registered in England and Wales (number 10819525) | Our registered address is Yellow Building, 1A Nicholas Road, London W11 4AN.

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